<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>13929</id>
<session>1996-97</session>
<number>240</number>
<title>Home-Start</title>
<proposer id="10649">Audrey Wise</proposer>
<date>1996-11-25</date>
<text>That this House welcomes and values the work of Home-Start, a voluntary organisation helping young families under stress; notes with interest the research done by the University of Leeds showing that Home-Start makes a real difference to families through practical help, advice and support, that statutory workers also value Home-Start because it provides a flexible service without stigma, filling gaps and being complementary to their own work and that the help of Home-Start is often more acceptable to families; notes further that Home-Start works often with families suffering from chronic or acute health problems, depression, isolation, often in bad physical and financial circumstances; and declares that this work is so valuable that Home-Start itself warrants practical help by way of more funding so that the essential work of its co-ordinators does not have to be swallowed up by fund-raising and so that Home-Start can be confident that work started can be continued into the future and extended for the benefit of hard-pressed young families.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10649">Audrey Wise</mp>
		<date>1996-11-25</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Preston</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10407">Alice Mahon</mp>
		<date>1996-11-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Halifax</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10436">Austin Mitchell</mp>
		<date>1996-11-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Great Grimsby</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10123">Harry Cohen</mp>
		<date>1996-11-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leyton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10233">Llin Golding</mp>
		<date>1996-11-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newcastle-under-Lyme</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10114">Eric Clarke</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Midlothian</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10128">Michael Connarty</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Falkirk East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10132">Robin Corbett</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Erdington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10144">John Cummings</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Easington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10157">Ian Davidson</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Govan</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="19305">Peter Thurnham</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bolton North East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10612">Paul Tyler</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Cornwall</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10428">Alan Meale</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mansfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18408">William McKelvey</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kilmarnock &amp; Loudoun</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10513">Ernie Ross</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10515">Andrew Rowe</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kent Mid</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22067">Peter Hardy</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wentworth</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10294">Kim Howells</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Pontypridd</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10317">Barry Jones</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Alyn &amp; Deeside</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18209">Liz Lynne</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rochdale</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10375">John McAllion</mp>
		<date>1996-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10607">Dennis Turner</mp>
		<date>1996-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wolverhampton South East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10039">Joe Benton</mp>
		<date>1996-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bootle</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10230">Norman Godman</mp>
		<date>1996-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Greenock and Port Glasgow</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10224">Neil Gerrard</mp>
		<date>1996-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Walthamstow</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10215">Maria Fyfe</mp>
		<date>1996-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Maryhill</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10135">Jean Corston</mp>
		<date>1996-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bristol East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10101">David Chidgey</mp>
		<date>1996-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Eastleigh</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10323">Lynne Jones</mp>
		<date>1996-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Selly Oak</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10322">Jon Owen Jones</mp>
		<date>1996-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cardiff Central</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10562">Rachel Squire</mp>
		<date>1996-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dunfermline West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10544">Dennis Skinner</mp>
		<date>1996-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bolsover</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="19103">Roger Sims</mp>
		<date>1996-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chislehurst</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="16879">James Callaghan</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Heywood &amp; Middleton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="19735">Richard Alexander</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newark</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10246">Win Griffiths</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bridgend</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="16431">John Hannam</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Exeter</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10025">Tony Banks</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newham North West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10026">Harry Barnes</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Derbyshire</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10059">Keith Bradley</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Manchester, Withington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10463">Bill Olner</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nuneaton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22644">David Martin</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10262">Nick Harvey</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Devon</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10275">John Heppell</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22114">Robert Hughes</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Aberdeen North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10305">Eric Illsley</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley Central</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10313">Brian Jenkins</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Staffordshire South East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10326">Tessa Jowell</mp>
		<date>1996-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dulwich</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10076">Richard Burden</mp>
		<date>1996-11-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Northfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22646">Emma Nicholson</mp>
		<date>1996-11-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Torridge &amp; West Devon</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10401">Denis MacShane</mp>
		<date>1996-11-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rotherham</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10298">Simon Hughes</mp>
		<date>1996-11-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Southwark and Bermondsey</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10541">Alan Simpson</mp>
		<date>1996-11-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10532">Brian Sedgemore</mp>
		<date>1996-11-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hackney South &amp; Shoreditch</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10525">Alex Salmond</mp>
		<date>1996-11-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Banff &amp; Buchan</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10647">Nicholas Winterton</mp>
		<date>1996-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Macclesfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10145">Lawrence Cunliffe</mp>
		<date>1996-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leigh</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10432">Bill Michie</mp>
		<date>1996-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sheffield, Heeley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10334">Charles Kennedy</mp>
		<date>1996-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ross and Cromarty and Skye</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10479">Peter Pike</mp>
		<date>1996-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Burnley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10619">Joan Walley</mp>
		<date>1996-12-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stoke-on-Trent North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="17516">John Gilbert</mp>
		<date>1996-12-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dudley East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10359">Terry Lewis</mp>
		<date>1996-12-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worsley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18112">Joan Lestor</mp>
		<date>1996-12-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Eccles</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10512">Terry Rooney</mp>
		<date>1996-12-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bradford North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10510">Allan Rogers</mp>
		<date>1996-12-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rhondda</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10057">Peter Bottomley</mp>
		<date>1996-12-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Eltham</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10016">Joe Ashton</mp>
		<date>1996-12-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bassetlaw</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10253">Mike Hall</mp>
		<date>1996-12-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Warrington South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10008">Graham Allen</mp>
		<date>1996-12-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="16432">Rupert Allason</mp>
		<date>1996-12-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Torbay</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10147">Jim Cunningham</mp>
		<date>1996-12-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Coventry South East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10138">Tom Cox</mp>
		<date>1996-12-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tooting</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21738">Russell Johnston</mp>
		<date>1996-12-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10639">Alan Williams</mp>
		<date>1996-12-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Swansea West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10189">Bill Etherington</mp>
		<date>1996-12-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sunderland North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10105">Michael Clapham</mp>
		<date>1996-12-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley West &amp; Penistone</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10320">Ieuan Wyn Jones</mp>
		<date>1996-12-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ynys M</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10281">Margaret Hodge</mp>
		<date>1996-12-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barking</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10485">Raymond Powell</mp>
		<date>1996-12-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ogmore</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10324">Martyn Jones</mp>
		<date>1996-12-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Clwyd South West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18287">Max Madden</mp>
		<date>1996-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bradford West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="16384">Diana Maddock</mp>
		<date>1996-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Christchurch</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10579">Gerry Sutcliffe</mp>
		<date>1996-12-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bradford South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10325">Nigel Jones</mp>
		<date>1996-12-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cheltenham</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10074">Malcolm Bruce</mp>
		<date>1996-12-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gordon</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10163">Terry Davis</mp>
		<date>1996-12-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Hodge Hill</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10635">Dafydd Wigley</mp>
		<date>1996-12-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Caernarfon</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10368">Elfyn Llwyd</mp>
		<date>1996-12-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Meirionnydd Nant Conwy</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10364">Ken Livingstone</mp>
		<date>1996-12-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brent East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10250">John Gunnell</mp>
		<date>1997-01-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds South and Morley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22634">Jack Thompson</mp>
		<date>1997-01-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wansbeck</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10247">Bruce Grocott</mp>
		<date>1997-01-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wrekin, The</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10088">Menzies Campbell</mp>
		<date>1997-01-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Fife North East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10339">Peter Kilfoyle</mp>
		<date>1997-01-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Liverpool, Walton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10238">Tommy Graham</mp>
		<date>1997-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Renfrew West and Inverclyde</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10087">Anne Campbell</mp>
		<date>1997-02-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cambridge</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10028">John Battle</mp>
		<date>1997-02-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10042">Gerry Bermingham</mp>
		<date>1997-02-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>St Helens South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="16751">Roland Boyes</mp>
		<date>1997-02-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Houghton and Washington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22255">John Evans</mp>
		<date>1997-02-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>St Helens North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
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</edm>
